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Ribbon Memo Board {Homemade!}

I am a note person. A list maker. Not a digital note/list person either (I have downloaded so many Note/List Apps and realize I get satisfaction from crossing things out (with a pen) way more than deleting from a digital list. Therefore, we have notes on our calendar and on the inside of our cabinets.

I saw a tutorial for a Ribbon Memo Board here and thought it was perfect to contain these little notes of mine.  A bonus was that I had all the materials on hand. Although I suspect this would cost under $5 to make even if you had to purchase everything.

I am always excited to put to use the ribbons from my Ribbon Basket (these are all recycled/leftover from other projects)

My finished product!

I hung it with 3m Command Strips and a piece of ribbon duct-taped to the back to create a hook.


~Angela

linking up to:

Ivy Cottage

Practically Functional

Truly Lovely

Six Sisters Stuff

Serenity Now

Alderberry Hill

Bowl Full of Lemons

Homemade bath paints for kids

My little girl (who I have always called Bundle) loves to paint, but does not like to finger paint because she doesn’t like to get dirty. How a child who loves to play in the dirt does not like to play with finger paint, is beyond me, but she much prefers to use a paintbrush. And she always has. She also love the water and her baths. When I saw the idea for bath paints here we got right on that project. I mixed shaving cream (I used Skintimate Shave Gel because it was what I had on hand) and food coloring together and bath paint was born. Bundle painted for 30 minutes in the tub the first night and just loved it! We had to add more water to keep the tub warm. The second night she painted for 45 minutes and I let the water cool in hopes I could coax her out of the tub that way, but she was having too much fun to even mind the temperature of the water!

Crazy hair, optional

We put lids on the containers to use the bath paint again and although the consistency of the paint had changed, it still worked beautifully days later. Here’s my tip: simply rinse the paint off before it dries onto the tub. I rinsed it off while the water is draining, then pulled my Bundle out of the empty tub (she insists on staying in until ALL the water is out) and wrap her up “Like a Bundle” in her towel.

Daddy with our Bundle

~Angela

 

linking up to:

 Ivy Cottage

Practically Functional

Truly Lovely

Six Sisters Stuff

Serenity Now

Alderberry Hill

Bowl Full of Lemons

Date Night! At Home

My husband and I enjoyed a quiet night together at home recently, foregoing the babysitter. It was quiet, peaceful, very low key and simple. And I loved it. Music, drinks, a game, a candle and time to unwind and talk to the man I fell in love with so many years ago...made for a perfect evening.

I find we get so caught up in going places that we don't take advantage of downtime at home like we should. I appreciate the quiet after my little girl is in bed in a different way than I appreciate the energy she brings to our home and our lives.  Our home is a comfortable place to unwind and I look forward to many more date nights at home...

~Angela

 

Linking up here: 

Simple As That

Bowl Full of Lemons

An old Chair gets a new Life



I mentioned in a previous post that I love chairs. My mom and I started giving each other chairs and chair related gifts many years ago. Neither one of us can remember how this little tradition began, but it has been fun searching for and collecting chairs for each other ever since.




A framed pic of my mom & I that is in my laundry room

chair charm bracelet from my mom

Another gift from my mom

My mom and I each decorated these chairs for each other and made them almost identical!

It was only fitting that it was my mom who bought my little girl’s high chair for her

and also gave her a table and chair set, perfect for tea parties, of which we have many!

My husband and I gave our little girl this chair for her 1st birthday.

Then there was this chair that I picked up from a fundraising garage sale for $3 that my little girl likes to rock in while she sits with a book.

The “chair thing” as my mom and I call it (I know, so original) has now been extended to include my daughter. I am not a collector in general since I don’t like to have a lot of unnecessary stuff- I like to say that I only collect photos and memories- but as I look back at all the chair items I have, it is safe to say that this classifies as a collection.

My latest find was this chair I bought off the Internet for $5. It was dirty and the varnish was peeling off in places but that didn’t bother me. I knew it was the perfect size for my little girl and with a little soap & water and paint, it had the potential to be exactly what I wanted it to be. After scoring this free child’s art table for our Art Room, I have been on the search for a chair that my little girl could sit at when we do art together. This was the perfect height and very sturdy- really my only parameters for a chair.(I wish I had taken a "before" picture so you can appreciate the improvement).

I spray painted it  Blue Ocean Breeze. My husband asked me “What made you choose that color? It does not go with anything in the house.” And although he is absolutely right, my response was that I liked the color. It spoke to me. While at the store, amidst the giant wall lined with cans of spray paint in every color imaginable, this is the one that said Buy Me. And so I did. I figured if I hated it, I could always repaint it, although that won’t be necessary since I do love the finished product.

So does my little girl. And after all, it is her chair.

~Angela

Linking to these parties:

Truly Lovely

Ivy Cottage

Bowl Full Of Lemons

Alderberry Hill